On November 5th, the American people elected Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States. He won the popular vote and the Electoral College. This despite all of the hateful rhetoric of the left, the lawfare, and the left-wing media working in tandem to prevent it.
During the past four years the left in toto did everything they could to prevent Trump from even running. They impeached him after he left office, hoping to legally bar him from running again. They held the January 6th hearings, hoping to get him on an insurrection charge. It is now coming to light that the committee willfully suppressed evidence that proved Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats refused extra security offered by then President Trump, making them largely responsible for the violence that occurred that day.
Then the Democrats went after him legally in what has been coined "lawfare." State Attorneys General and local prosecutors in New York and Georgia filed bogus, exaggerated charges against Trump, hoping to put him in jail so he couldn't campaign. The New York judges showed blatant bias against Trump and committed numerous violations of legal precedent to insure a conviction. (The Appellate Court in New York is now reviewing the New York cases and finding serious issues of impropriety committed by the prosecution.)
The Department of Justice illegally appointed a Special Prosecutor, without going through legal proceedings, to investigate and charge Trump with federal crimes on top of the state charges. That prosecutor, Jack Smith, has a long and notorious history of winning convictions in dubious ways, only to have those convictions overturned on appeal. For Smith and the Justice Department, the eventual outcome wasn't important. It was all about convicting Trump before the election.
Their efforts all failed. Trump won a decisive victory despite the efforts of the left. "Why?" my leftist friends ask. "How is it possible so many Americans voted for this evil man that we hate?"
The answer is multifaceted... but simple.
1) The leadership of the country under Biden/Harris over the last four years has largely failed. Inflation is still up. Gas prices stayed high until the election loomed. Grocery prices are still high. Mortgage rates are high. The overall cost of living under Biden/Harris is bad. (Kamala Harris blamed grocery prices on price gouging, but the American people didn't buy what she was selling,)
2) Biden ended one war badly, getting Americans killed needlessly, and without remorse. He then got us into two proxy wars, spending countless billions to fund Ukraine, and billions more funding both our ally, Israel, and Hamas, the terrorist organization that attacked Israel. And he has now begun funding Hezbollah in its fight against Israel.
3) After pretending Joe Biden was mentally competent, until they couldn't do it anymore, top Democrats in Washington forced him out of the Presidential race and installed Kamala Harris. Die hard Democrats didn't care that installing Harris completely disregarded our electoral process. But many Americans took notice.
The Democrats used the same old, tiring narrative against Trump. "He's not a good man. He's a convicted criminal. He's a rapist. He grabs women's genitals..." They did add "He's a fascist," and ""He's Adolph Hitler," to the narrative this time. The die hard Democrats and Trump haters, including Kamala Harris, ran with that narrative. But the majority of American voters saw it for what it was - a dishonest distraction from Kamala Harris' complete lack of substance.
I don't believe the country has been more divided politically than we are now, at least in my lifetime. The hatred and vitriol coming from the left, directed not only at Trump but at his voters, are unprecedented. I have friends, whom I love, who have called me vile names and even demanded I unfriend them because I voted for Trump. They don't care to understand my reasons. Their hatred is beyond reason, and speaks to mental illness. But if our friendship is going to end because of a political disagreement, they're going to have to end it, not me.
To them I would say, "I'm sorry you chose to end our friendship because of a political disagreement. But if that is your choice - perhaps our friendship wasn't as important as I believed it to be."
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